Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everywhere in Paris people mourned le brave Herrick. The ambassador, 74, had insisted five days before on taking full part in the funeral of his friend Marshal Foch (TIME, April i). He stood bareheaded in the cold mist at the Arc de Triomphe and walked in the cortege all the way from Notre Dame to Les Invalides. Two days later he complained of a cold. He went to bed. The next day heart specialists were called in. Parmely Herrick, the Ambassador's son, was called by trans-Atlantic telephone at his home near Cleveland. Just before dusk on Easter Sunday...
...editors, one was stocky Ray Long, whose April Cosmopolitan appeared early in March galvanized by a Coolidge-penned story, swift, personal, moving. The other was Loring Ashley Schuler, whose April Ladies' Home Journal also carrying a Coolidge-penned story appeared only last week. The Schuler-Coolidge story was, of course, dulled because antedated by the Long-Collidge story. But what really killed the Schuler story was Author Coolidge himself. In the Cosmopolitan he was dynamic, in the Ladies' Home Journal he was tedious, general, rambling...
...London, lost their parents at 18 months. A's foster parents raised her in stodgy London, O's in a small Ontario town. Both received similar education. Recently A joined O. Theoretically and according to previous observations identical twins should be mirror images of each other (TIME, April 9, 1928). A's and O's conduct agree with this. Both have hasty tempers. They have similar likes and dislikes. They worry about the same things. But mentally Ontario O is two years older than London A. Their case points answers to two moot points: heredity governs...
Last week, in Paris, Morgan-Partner Thomas W. Lamont agreed with Chairman Owen D. Young of the Radio Corp. of America that it would be pleasant for all concerned if the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. should take over Radio's newborn (TIME, April 1) subsidiary, R.C.A. Communications, Inc. So formal and so important was this friendly agreement that it at once was called an ACCORD. A price was mentioned, around $100,000,000. Vice President David Sarnoff of Radio and Nelson Dean Jay of Morgan's Paris house talked details. U. S. directors of both companies hastily met and approved...
...Last week, when Paris correspondents feverishly cabled their great scoop, every well-informed businessman knew about the giant I.T.&T. whose stock had gone up more than 100 points in one year. A year ago, before the Brothers Behn acquired the Mackay telegraph and cable systems (TIME, April 2, 1928), many an executive would have been put to it to explain: 1) What was the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.; and 2 ) Who were Sosthenes and Hernand Behn...